Honey Bee Food Crop Plant For Sale In Massachusetts

* The sprouted seeds can be eaten. They taste somewhat like peas. * The latex in the stems is a suitable replacement for chicle and can be made into a chewing gum. * The unopened flower buds are eaten cooked.

* Leaves to 6"; branches brown and fuzzy; small clusters of 7-10 flowers; rounded fruit; native to northeast Asia.

* Plants seem to be immune to the predations of rabbits. * The name of this species is based on the cultivated form, the true wild form is A. Flabellata pumila. * Succeeds in ordinary garden soil, preferring a moist but not wet soil and a sunny position.

The flowers are pink, borne in summer. * Rosa palustris is a shrub with alternate, pinnately compound leaves , on thorny stems.

* Fruits are very narrow, foot-long pods. * The flowers are considered to be one of the best bee plants in Japan. * Bark of mature trees is fissured, prominently ridged and pale gray-brown.

It is the type species of the subgenus Padus with flowers in racemes , which are hermaphroditic and pollinated by bees and flies; it is a deciduous small tree or large shrub 8–16 m tall.

* A low growing, persistent, perennial, cool season legume. * White clover ( Trifolium repens ) is a species of clover native to Europe , North Africa , and West Asia . Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay.

* Some Native American groups lit carefully planned controlled burns in wild huckleberry patches to promote fruit production by eliminating competing plants and by stimulating the huckleberry to sprout and spread.

It is used in the treatment of rheumatism and skin eruptions. They are taken both internally and externally in the treatment of syphilitic, cancerous and other foul ulcers. A homeopathic remedy is made from the plant.

* The yellow rays are strongly downturned and the disk is dark brown. * Echinacea paradoxa ( Bush's purple coneflower , Yellow Coneflower ) is a perennial species of flowering plant in the genus Echinacea .

* The leaves contain up to 2.4% of an antibacterial substance called 'phloretin'.This inhibits the growth of a number of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria in as low a concentration as 30 ppm.

* A fibre obtained from the stems is used in papermaking. * The red anthocyanin constituent of the flowers is used as a litmus. * The plants are easily grown from seed, and readily self-seed.

The meadow rose occurs as a colony-forming shrub growing to 1 m (3 ft) high, naturally in prairies and meadows. The five large petals are shaped either obovate or obcordate, 3 cm (1.4 in) long and 2.5 cm (1 in) wide.

* The fruit skins have been eaten in the treatment of stomach complaints. * Though one of the most shade-tolerant roses, this species grows best in open, sunny locations. * White or pink flowers to 2 1/2"; pear-shaped 1/3-2/3" hips, shiny red or red-orange;...

The common name germander was originally altered from a Greek name for ground oak, chamaidrys. Two smaller, bushier species have been introduced from Europe into eastern North America: Woodland Germander (T.

* The fruit can be eaten raw, cooked in pies, cakes etc or fermented into cider. * Used as a rootstock for the cultivated apples. * This is one of the apple varieties thta does bext under low chill conditions.

The flowers are produced throughout the spring and summer, rich red or crimson, congested on an elongated spike inflorescence 3-5 cm tall and 1.5 cm broad; the individual flowers are up to 10-13 mm long and have five petals.

* Rubus odoratus ( Purple-flowering Raspberry , Flowering Raspberry , or Virginia raspberry ) is a species of Rubus , native to eastern North America , from Nova Scotia west to Ontario , and south to Georgia and Alabama .

It was formerly known as Mimulus guttatus. Inbreeding reduces flower quantity and size and pollen quality and quantity. * Prefers rather moist places such as damp borders, margins of streams and boggy spots.

The genus is named in honour of John Templeton, an Irish naturalist and botanist. * Templetonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It is covered in red flowers in the winter and spring.

* Buddleja davidii , (old spelling Buddleia davidii ); also called summer lilac , butterfly-bush or orange eye ) is a shrub in the Buddlejaceae family . * It is widely used as an ornamental plant.

* Lilac or rosy-purple wonderfully fragrant 1/2" flowers in early spring; red fruit in June; may be evergreen or nearly so; native to Europe and western Asia. The common name is Mezereon .

When growing the plant for its seedpods, be sure to pick them whilst they are still small and tender. * The green pods are commonly used as a vegetable, they have a mild flavour and should only be cooked for a short time.

* A very ornamental plant. * Established plants are drought tolerant. * A good bee plant. * Thistley plants for full sun and poor dry soil; the half-inch flower heads, also like thistles, can be a fine metallic blue or blue purple; flowers in mid to late...

It grows from sea level in the north, up to elevations of 3,000 m (10,000 ft) in the south. * The flowers support pollinators, including of special value to Native bees, honeybees, and bumblebees.

* Thoroughwort is one of the most popular domestic medicines in North America where it is used in the treatment of influenza, colds, acute bronchitis, catarrh and skin diseases. It is nearly always found in low, wet areas and is often found near Phalaris...

* It is now commonly planted as an ornamental tree across the British Isles and some parts of western Europe. * The sap has a sweet taste. * Eucalyptus leaves are a traditional Aboriginal herbal remedy.